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Articles tagged with: O2
O2 Tops UK Contract Customer Satisfaction Survey
A J.D. Power survey of UK mobile phone users has found that o2 ranks highest with pre-pay mobile phone service, while Virgin Mobile ranks highest among pay-monthly mobile phone customers. more
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Virgin Mobile Tops UK Mobile Broadband Tests
The results are now available for the first Mobile Broadband Genie Road Trip Awards. The exercise directly pitted dongles provided by six of the UK's mobile broadband suppliers (o2, Orange, 3, T-mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone) against each other on a 350-mile rail journey over two days. more
Related Tags: orange, 3, t-mobile, virgin-media, vodafone, 3g, dongle, 3g-modem, broadband-genie, UK
UK: a way out of the spectrum re-farm deadlock?
Opinion by Matthew Howett, senior analyst at Ovum
900MHz to be liberalised in the hands of the existing holders, but access to
other spectrum would initially be capped.
more
Related Tags: vodafone, ofcom, 800mhz, 900mhz, digital-dividend, UK
UK Planning a Shake-Up of Radio Spectrum
The UK government has published details of plans to revamp radio spectrum management which could resolve a long-running battle between the two original mobile networks. Vodafone and o2 have been fighting plans proposed back in 2007 by the telecoms regulator to take back some of their licensed radio spectrum and refarm it to the later networks. more
Related Tags: ofcom, radio-spectrum, 900mhz, 800mhz, vodafone, telefonica-o2, UK
Samsung Shows off its First Android Phone
Samsung Electronics has shown off its first Android-powered mobile phone, the I7500. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone. more
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Vodafone Sees Loss of UK Market Share and Lower ARPUs
The UK added over 3m new mobile connections during 2008, to take the total base to 75.75m, equivalent to 124% penetration. The market is one of the most competitive in Europe, if not the world, with five established MNOs and several MVNOs, of which the most successful are Virgin and the increasingly ambitious Tesco. more
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Pannon Commissions Wind-Powered Base Station
Hungary based mobile network, Pannon says that it recently commissioned the country's first wind-powered base station. The village of Kálló in Nógrád County offers suitable wind conditions throughout the year, meaning the wind generator can contribute up to 50% of the base station's power demand. more
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Starbucks Switching Wi-Fi Providers in UK and Ireland
Starbucks is to switch its in-store Wi-Fi service from T-Mobile to British Telecom, covering more than 650 Starbucks coffeehouses in the UK and Ireland. The first stores will have the service installed this week and the roll out will be completed by the end of the summer 2009. more
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Tesco Expanding UK Mobile Phone Business
The UK's dominant grocery retailer, Tesco is to expand the number of its in-store "phone shops" which promote its own-brand MVNO products. The company is reported to be aiming to have 100 of its phone shops by the middle of next year, up from around 50 at the moment. more
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Telefonica Merges German Landline and Mobile Divisions
Telefónica Deutschland and o2 have announced plans to bundle their business-to-business activities and the operation of their mobile communications and landline infrastructures under the common name of Telefónica o2 Germany. more
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